It's the Most Wonderful (Word Learning) Time of the Year!

December 23, 2014

The holiday season is famous for its hustle and bustle. But that doesn't mean word learning has to come to a stop. In fact, the holidays provide many opportunities to acquire and think about words. It's just a question of knowing where to look for them.

Next, turn on the holiday holiday music. The archaic (or simply confusing) language of carols presents many a vocabulary stumper, which, when puzzled through, remind us that our lexicon is nearly as rich as some of those tempting holiday desserts.

Don't worry if these pieces become so engrossing you forget a last minute gift. You can always construct a thoughtfully personalized gift of a word for a loved one using nothing but your printer, some high quality paper, and our Dictionary.

And if, in between rounds of nog quaffing, carol singing, relative entertaining, and gift making, you do have time for playing Vocabulary.com, consider learning this list of Scroogey Words (from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol) put together just for you by all the hardworking List Elves at Vocabulary.com.